I underwent the procedure myself and it only took a few seconds.
A camera used a near-infrared light to put a virtual mesh on my
face 16 times. It merged these into one unique template and
calculated all the measurements of my features.
These could theoretically then be instantly checked
against a database to control access to a building or allow a
cash machine withdrawal. [Ed. note: like
supermarkets, banks, ATMs , shopping malls ?
]
Providing a secure environment is paramount to protecting assets,
profits, people and brand reputation. 3D
recognition is a huge leap forward for access control."
He claims a major UK airport is
interested in introducing it to check the right
passengers board the plane.
And in the future it could replace a PIN for
withdrawing cash at the bank.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4035285.stm

3D infrared animation brings life
to the image-First, the animators created the
movies environments and backgrounds in the computer, much
of them based on Van Allsburgs illustrations. These virtual
sets were then recreated on a soundstage using wire frame
recreations of objects with a grid of infrared receivers
suspended high overhead. The actors perform their scenes wearing
Lycra suits covered with sensors, and 150 sensors are placed on
their faces. Using these sensors, the receivers are able to
accurately capture their movements and facial expressions, which
are then digitized into the computers.

With the help of a costume designer and
hairstylist to visualize the characters, something unheard of for
an animated feature, the animators create "skins" to
place over the computerized skeletons captured on set. This great
attention to detail has allowed Zemeckis to create some of the
most lifelike computer animated humans ever seen on screen.http://www.mb.com.ph/INFO2004112823438.html

BlueToothing our homes
connecting videos,computers, TV etc.HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's largest electronics
firms have decided to use Bluetooth wireless technology to send
high quality video between devices in the home, two industry
associations said on Tuesday.
The decision is expected to determine how hundreds of millions of
televisions, video recorders and personal computers will be
connected without wires by the turn of the decade.
Bluetooth is a short-range radio technology which is currently
mostly used to connect cell phones to separate devices like
headsets, printers or microphones. It is increasingly used also
by the car industry.
Bluetooth, invented by Swedish telecoms group Ericsson in the
1990s,
is more than just a wireless connection. It also contains security
features and protocols to connect many
different devices in a small area. This is a key difference with
simpler Wi-Fi short-range wireless Internet connections

Mobile TV .... 24 / 7 IMAGE of the Beast ( interactive too)Innovations
to better to see the image of the beast withTV without Frontiers But the British government and some Internet companies
had feared that a previous draft would have gone even further,
potentially subjecting private Web sites,
blogs and Web cams to regulationhttp://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/12/business/eurotv.php

Local TV, Globally The end result is the same for all of them: You can
watch the TV channels you get at home on your personal computer
wherever you can get a broadband Internet connection - office,
hotel, cafe, airport lounge, etc. - either as they are broadcast
or to record to watch laterhttp://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/14/business/ptend15.php

CELLPHONE TV: Orange, the mobile phone company controlled
by France Télécom, is introducing the
first mobile phone television service in Britain to its
high-speed wireless customers. The service will initially be
available only on the Nokia 6680 phone. Customers will be charged
£10, or $18.33, a month to watch nine channels for a total of
about 20 hours of viewing time. (Bloomberg, Reuters) -- IHT

TV with no boundaries: TV2MeNow, Schaffer, 57, is trying to abolish yet
another blind spot. In short, he has devised a way to make home
TV reception portable - with high-quality pictures to be watched,
and channels to be changed, from anywhere in the world
that the Internet can reachIn fact, Schaffer was controlling a dedicated
computer terminal in Moscow that was simultaneously connected to
his Moscow cable box and a DSL data link. The terminal, which
Schaffer calls TV2Me, uses a small
infrared emitter to tell the cable box which channel
to display. Inside TV2Me are special computer cards that allow
the unit to send high-quality video over a routine broadband data
connection.

In his bedroom is a huge Sony plasma flat-panel
television. He puts up the same Moscow channels that
were on the laptop in the living room. The images are fluid and
clear.
Sony, it turns out, has just developed a similar product, called LocationFree
TV. Both TV2Me and LocationFree TV allow a user
to view their home television from anywhere in the world that has
a high-speed Internet link, even a Wi-Fi connectionoutdoors.
The Sony unit is cheaper. The home base station of the Sony unit
is smaller. Sony's user interface is slicker. But Schaffer's unit
transmits a clearer picture over the Internet.

Schaffer started working on TV2Me in earnest in 2001, and he has
ended up using the same basic compression technology that
Sony is using, called MPEG-4. But while Sony is
essentially using standard MPEG-4 by itself, Schaffer and
his team of Turkish and Russian programmers have
developed circuitry that allows the MPEG-4 encoder to operate
more efficiently and to generate a better picture.Tekseed LLC, which is developing a
separate video system for security applicationshis technology, which does, after all, retransmit cable or
satellite television signals over the Internet. He insists that
each customer put his systems only to personal use

As technology progressesIt has moved on from the discretionary stage to
being absolutely mandatory. Once you start rolling out
Web-enabled types of technologies, you will immediately be in
another dimension with an increased need for security.http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?file=540904.html

GPS ..from military to civilian -- Ely Portillo
Siemens to develop strategic text messaging One big innovator, the corporate technology unit
of Germany's Siemens AG, is working on a system to send text
messages to precise locations rather than to
individual cell phones. Any GPS-compatible phone that's passing
through the coordinates would receive the message
.All GPS systems, old or future, rely on radio signals that are
beamed continuously to Earth by a network of roughly24 satellites. (The precise number that
are operational varies.) GPS devices on Earth receive the signals
and measure how long it takes for each to arrive. Using the
classic physics formula of rate multiplied by time equals
distance, the GPS computes how far it is from at least three
satellites. Only one point on Earth corresponds to
each set of three distances. The GPS can compute location with an
accuracy of about a yard.[ Ed:
called "geo-triangualtion" ]

Augmented
Reality -- seeing beyond wallsSteven Feiner, a computer science professor at
Columbia University in New York, is developing goggles with a GPS
receiver in them that tracks the user's position and displays
information about what the user is looking at on the goggles'
lenses
Feiner thinks his so-called ``augmented reality''
system could be used to display the locations of
underground utilities for construction workers. Or
to show the utility systems
-- and possibly the identities of tenants -- in buildings from
the exterior( outside ) . Or to give
pedestrians the equivalent of in-car navigation maps.

GPS
home-detaineesAlso coming is a people-tracker that would do a better job
of telling what evasive home detainees such as Martha Stewart
have been up to. Houston-based Satellite Tracking of
People wants to do it with a one-piece GPS
ankle bracelet. Its bracelet can be coupled with
software that tracks the wearer and notifies monitors if
detainees go AWOL or have been near reported crimes.The
radio-based system that tracks Stewart and other federal
detainees sets off an alarm if the person leaves home but it
can't find him or her.VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital, a leading provider of security and
identification technology, announced today that it is introducing
its new implantable / wearable security
solution - VeriGuard(TM)-With the Company's recent acquisitions, the
VeriGuard system now features both implantable
and wearable RFIDaccesscontrol and monitoring
technology. Implantable RFID chips and/or wearable
RFID bracelets and tags integrate seamlessly into the new
VeriGuard system.
Our first-of-a-kind implantable RFID chip -
VeriChip - can be used for access control and other security
applicationsThe exhibition and demonstration of the VeriGuard system
will be managed by Seguridad Oncor,
VeriChip's distributor in Colombia. Seguridad Oncor Ltda.,
VeriChip's distributor in Colombia, is a distributor of access
control and RFID monitoring systems. For further information,
please visit http://www.seguridadoncor.com/. http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050727005319&newsLang=enFor information on VeriGuard, please navigate to http://verichip.arcterex.net/content/solutions/1117566047.
http://www.morerfid.com/details.php?subdetail=Report&action=details&report_id=397&display=RFID

VeriGuard can now detect implantable VeriChip
( instead of just only external tags) The VeriChip product started with the idea of an
electronic "dogtags" [ Ed:
ID ] for military and emergency services
personnel. It has been suggested that eventually VeriChip
could replace credit cards and other forms of
identification cards with the advantage that, unlike their
plastic equivalents, they are almost impossible to lose. But for
the near term, the company is promoting VeriChip as a means of
identification in a variety of applications including buildings
access, military, and government security.

It works in tandem with the VeriGuard system, which, for
instance, authenticates people authorized to enter a given
building or facility to automatically unlock a secure doorway if
the person has authorized access. The system being announced today will detect both
external wearable tags, such as those used with the Xmark
technology, as well with as the implantable VeriChip RFID tags.http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=FAB1FE4D-C713-4CC4-9DF9-B4C3B18212E9

Fiber-to-home broadband
network ... replacing cable networkThe utility has begun seeking bids for laying the network,
building the central office and then taking the fiber optic cable
lines directly to customers' homes. The project is being financed
through a general obligation bond issue.
The new network should be available to all Morristown customers
by the summer of 2007. Then the utility will use financing based
on revenues it's receiving from city customers to extend services
to the county, Swann said.
With the fiber-to-the-home network, as technology improves, the
utility will be able to deliver data services more and more
quickly, potentially improving on today's broadband speeds
by more than 100 percent, he said.http://www.technewsworld.com/story/40460.html

Government's
Back-Door to CellPhones Gov. messages ( PSA's ) by cellphone -- Jan. 4,
2005
SMS text messaging ........ Public Service Announcements
The idea of governments using mobile messages
to communicate with citizens is beginning to
take hold.
In April 2003, the government of Hong Kong sent out a text
message to six million mobile phones to quash a
rumor that Hong Kong had been designated an "infected
city" for severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.

iPod
storage unit ( your personal mega-database )
1,000s of files, profiles An iPod in the wrong hands could be as dangerous:
Thousands of photos in waiting and nowhere to run. Talk about an
ambush. Even worse, it takes no particular skills to use the
iPod, once you've made the download from your computer. There is
no intelligence deterrent to be considered; Everyone
is a threat.

A theme that popped up regularly in early TV science fiction like
"Star Trek" and "My Favorite Martian" was the
idea that the essence of man could be condensed into a small
cube. Suck all the fluids and empty space out of our body and the
rest of our being could be compressed into something just about
the size of an iPod. This was good for transporting matter over
long distances, but it was bad if you dropped one of the cubes,
which tended to crumble apart on impact
The iPod tends to mimic this fancy of fiction, without the Humpty
Dumpty effect if mishandled.

Cellular Squirrel evaluates cell
phone calls -- July 19, 2005When a call comes in, the animatronic squirrel
will "wake up" as might a character from a Disney
movie. It will then start engaging the remote caller in a
conversation in an effort to determine what the call
is about, and if it is important enough to disrupt the
conversation going on in its area.

The device makes this determination by listening to the
conversation around it, trying to pick up key subject words that
it can use to compare with what the inbound caller seeks to
discuss. The number of the caller is also compared with an
internal list of numbers belonging to "friends", and
the tone of the callers voice is evaluatedhttp://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=1519

WiMaxWiMax is a long-range system that can deliver massive
amounts of bandwidth - up to 70 megabits a second - over
distances as long as 30 miles,
or 50 kilometers. Add voice-over-Internet gear, and some of this
bandwidth can be used to carry standard telephone calls. Bolt a
WiMax antenna to an office building, and you've got a
heavy-duty communications link that can supplement or replace
traditional telephone and Internet hookups.

"It's a better way to deliver broadband," said
TowerStream founder and president Jeff Thompson, who has set up
WiMax services in New York, Chicago and Boston.
TowerStream can deliver a 1.5-megabit-per-second Internet
"pipe" for $500 a month, compared with $370 for a
connection from the local telephone company Verizon. But in New
York and Chicago, TowerStream offers 5 megabits for $500, and it
will soon introduce the higher-speed service to Boston at the
same price.http://www.iht.com/articles/514682.htm
What is WiMax ?http://computer.howstuffworks.com/wimax.htm

pocket-lint co.uk
Rabbit : Wi-Fi for entire cities --
July 18, 2005The device's key characteristic is permanent wireless
connectivity to the Internet via a Wi-Fi network, preferably one
that stretches across the entire city in
which it is located.For now, the rabbit remains a basic
communications device that uses lights, sounds and movements of
its ears to discreetly pass on messages to anyone nearby. Sounds
can include MP3 files of music, voice or noises, and any
combinations of colored lights and patterns can be
used to signal specific information

Ed : Population
Control through networkingJohn Gage, chief researcher at Sun Microsystems, at the
TED forum. ''Once they get enough of them out there, I would love
to see a global piece of installation art created by
moving all their ears at once.''The ultimate goal is to link all
devices within a home and even a city for your convenienceSome of the things he is working on include an
announcement by the rabbit when a specific bus nears the
neighborhood in the morning; [ ED :
from local governance to your home ]His next application  to be introduced in September
 will be a mobile telephone that can make calls over the
InternetVarious city governments have made it their stated
objective to offer wireless Internet to their residents,.....The network bounces the signal from antenna to antenna, so
only a few antennas need to be connected to the Internet via a
land line.http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/17/technology/web.0717ted18.php

MS
Location Finder ... No hide Wi-Fi Microsoft Location Finder is a client-side
application that turns a regular WiFi enabled laptop, Tablet or
PC into a location determining device without the addition of any
separate hardware. When launched by a user, Microsoft Location
Finder uses WiFi access points - or reverse IP
lookup when WiFi is not available - to
center and display the person's location on an MSN Virtual Earth
map, enabling the user to quickly and easily search in their
present location.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B5E8C83A-EA8E-4464-9980-7B6A8DD1013C&displaylang=enrms

Wi-Fi MOBILE VisibilityTransAlta plans to replace its existing handheld
computers, which can scan passive RFID tags wirelessly but have
to be connected physically to other peripherals to gather
metrics, with next-generation handhelds such as Intermec Corp.'s
Bluetooth-enabled devices. Intermec's handheld computers have
built-in Bluetooth capability and come with RFID-enabled handles
that easily snap on. The active RFID tags
will give TransAlta more flexibility than passive tags because
they have more memory and transmit over greater distances

It's also investigating software such as AeroScout Inc.'s
Visibility System, which supports RFID, real-time location
tracking, telemetry, and choke-point detection, which is technology
that detects tagged items or people as they pass through gates or
other defined spaces. Locating an expensive calibration
tool in a power plant six times the size of a Costco store can be
difficult, says Paul Kurchina, program director at TransAlta.
"We don't want to just identify the equipment like passive
RFID does; we want to be able to find it when it's mobile.
And using active RFID combined with a Wi-Fi network
can tell me exactly where this calibration tool is in the plant,
and it can even tell me if it's leaving the premises," he
says. http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=57701494&tid=5978

Verizon - Vodaphone ...36 citiesEV - DO ..... 30 % of US covered under broadband LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Verizon
Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless company, will expand its
high-speed data service to 16 markets by the end of the year, the
chairman of Verizon Communications Inc. said on Monday.The service, already available in all or parts of 20
cities, offers typical download speeds of about 500 kilobits per
second, about 10 times as fast as dial-up Internet connections,
with bursts of up to two megabits per second, comparable to home
broadband service.[ Ivan ] Seidenberg did not say which cities would be
added to the service. Verizon had set a goal of
covering 30 percent of its U.S. network with the technology known
as EV-DO by the end of the year. In the second
quarter, about 4 percent of Verizon Wireless' revenue, or $255
million, came from data serviceshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=575&ncid=738&e=8&u=/nm/20041011/wr_nm/telecoms_verizonwireless_dc

Wi-Fi
and TransportationBoston installs GPS + RFID web-enabled buses MBTA and Wi- Fi Accessibility Once installed, the system
will provide subway passengers with the ability to utilize
wireless voice and data devices, including cellular telephones
and hand-held Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). The license
also includes the right to expand the wireless network to other
stations and tunnels a move that would generate additional
non-fare revenue for the MBTA to increase ridership and hopefully
extend the service to other branches of commuter service if it is
widely accepted and utilized.

Enhanced communication within the T system is not just a
matter of convenience for customers, said Transportation
Secretary Daniel A. Grabauskas. It also has a critical
public security aspect to it, as passengers will have increased
ability to report safety issue to the appropriate
personnel.http://www.bostonpocketpc.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2713
"In the case of the CharlieCard system, a backend database
would store information about each time a CharlieCard is used to
purchase a bus or subway ride. A transaction record in a
database would likely contain the following pieces of information
about a purchase:
1. The ID number of the CharlieCard making the
purchase
2. Date and time of the purchase
3. Amount of the fare
4. An ID number of the fare box where the CharlieCard
was scanned.
5. And maybe a digital photo of the person making the
purchase

Other parts of
the CharlieCard backend database would contain tables which hold
information about CharlieCard owners, fare boxes, location of
stations, routes, etc.The whole purpose of RFID tags is to make
it easy to put data into a database about someone's or somethings
activities.A backend
database might also be used to keep track of where a bus has been
via a GPS receiver." --- rms

Miscellaneous

In Silver The process requires three materials, Dr.
Mahabadi says. Most polymers - the molecules found in plastics -
are insulators, and these can be printed quite easily. The
semiconductor material will also be a type of polymer, he says.
For the more complex conductor, XRCC researchers are working with
tiny particles of silver suspended in a solvent that will
evaporate after being applied to the tag, leaving a layer of
silver behind.http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060615.gtxeroxjun15/BNStory/Business/home

Changing
the Internet... the network will focus on security, "pervasive
computing" environments populated by mobile, wireless and
sensornetworks, control
of critical infrastructure and the ability to handle new
services that can be used by millions of people[Leonard] Kleinrock also said it
would be possible to design a network that would be better able
to handle traffic from the edge of the network, at the level of
individual users. In the next decade, computer researchers expect
an explosion of data from mobile and wireless devices as well as
sensors that will vastly outnumber current personal computershttp://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/29/business/net.php

"light messaging" and "flash message" The 3220 is currently the only
phone in the world that allows users to send mid-air text
messages called light messaging. By waving the unit
from side to side, the Xpress-on Fun Shell lights up
to write messages that appear to float in mid-air.
This has become possible because of the special arrangement of
LEDs on the back of the Xpress-on cover. When the phone is
waved in the air, a motion sensor in the phone makes the
lights blink in a sequence that spells out specific letters. An
optical illusion turns the sequence of
letters into a message that appears to hang in the air

The phone also features a flash
message capability. Like other phones, the 3220 can send
text messages (SMS) and multi-media messages (MMS). But unlike
other phones, the 3220 can send a Flash Message.
The person to whom you send your message does not need to press
any button or open his inbox to read incoming messages. Your
message is instantly flashed on the screen until it is
read. Although Flash messages can be sent by computer
or thru operator support, this is the first time a flash message
feature is integrated into a phone.http://www.mb.com.ph/TECH2005052335306.html

PalmOne LifeDrive: Mobile Manager
The LifeDrive is the first product from palmOne's new mobile
manager category of products. This new class of device is the
first PDA released domestically to include a built in hard drive.
It's aim is to be a repository for your digital content, be that
photos, movies, music or large volumes of office documents.
The LifeDrive takes
the traditional PDA look with a modern minimalist look.http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=7840

Cellphones with GPS receivers --cellular vs.
satellite
triangulation and gyroscopesBut cellphones with GPS receivers
have brought the cost within reach of almost anyone. Leong says
the monthly cost of the application is now around $20 to $25 per
phone, plus airtime charges. Prices vary, depending on how often
the location is reported, but Leong says a $20-a-month,
1.5-megabyte package serves most needs. Even in-vehicle systems
today can use the cellular network to
report their location to a central point, instead of transmitting
that information by satellite as early systems did. That reduces
costs noticeably.

Most advances in this area can be attributed to
the U.S. government's requirement that cellular carriers
develop the ability topinpoint the locations of
cellphones that call 911 emergency services to within 150 metres
95 per cent of the time. That has accelerated the arrival of GPS-equipped
phones and led carriers to explore using the cellular
network itself to locate phones more accurately. http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&lid=1&sid=57604&adBanner=Networking

Devices change faster than the rules
Radio Waves: too many devices; too many interferring frequencies
While travelers may know that cellphones are signal producers and
comply with rules banning their use in flight, their
understanding of the risks posed by other devices is fuzzier.
Passengers with laptops equipped with Wi-Fi cards may turn on the
laptop without grasping that it is broadcasting, looking for an
access point. Some may turn on a wirelessly equipped hand-held to
look at a calendar and forget that it, too, is radiatinghttp://www.iht.com/articles/511032.html

"texture mapping"
3D Chips (graphics, images)It was a grim lesson for Huang, who co-founded Nvidia in
1993 after leaving LSI Logic to start the company with two
friends from Sun Microsystems. At the time there were no 3D games
in the PC market, and no one was attempting to use texture
mapping, a technique for wrapping a digital image around an
object to give it a more realistic appearance.http://www.iht.com/articles/514652.html

VeriCode Systems is a systems
integrator based in Bolingbrook, Ill. It provides a
full range of services, including systems design, installation,
and integration for automatic data capture systems in warehouses.
SAMSys's readers will be integrated with VeriCode's Pallet
Track and Carton Track solutions, which provide manufacturers
and distributors with real-time information
needed to keep manufacturing and shipping operations running
efficiently.http://www.vericode.com

IMAGE
VConexThe VConex engineering team will expand
on proprietary technologies developed by Light Speed Labs
to create new product categories which integrate video
acquisition, storage, retrieval and display into single solutions
with secure global data access over network infrastructures.
Initially the Company will focus on network displays for
public view,
network digital recorders, high definition cameras and a combination
of all of these products to make a complete network solution
for video switching and control. VConex will also develop
network recorders for security applications that can be embedded
into public view displays to yield standalone
display/players.
The Display Systems Group (DSG) is a global provider of
integrated display products and systems to the public
information, financial, point-of-sale and medical imagining
markets. DSG partners with leading hardware vendors to offer the
highest quality liquid crystal display (LCD), plasma, cathode ray
tube (CRT) and customized display monitors. DSG engineers design
custom display solutions that include specialized finishes,
touch-screens, protective panels, custom enclosures and private
branding. For more information on Richardson's Display Systems
Group please visit http://display.rell.com.http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Dec/1100539.htm

KODAK AND IBM TEAM UP:
Eastman Kodak and IBM said they had agreed to develop and make image
sensors for digital still cameras and camera phones.
IBM said it was pursuing the partnership because of anticipated
growth in the image sensor market, a new venture for the
technology giant. Financial terms of the pact were not released.Image sensors act as the "eye" of a digital
camera by converting light into electric charges.
(AP)
--- International Herald Tribune Sept. 17, 2004

ARTICLES :

Specifications not always accurate -- Dec. 27, 2004Until a few years ago, most CPUs had relatively similar
designs. So the faster the unit's internal clock ran, the more
work it could do per second. But that simple calculus broke down
when Intel moved from its Pentium III to its current
Pentium 4 family of processors. "They went from a chip that performs a lot of work per
clock cycle to one that performs less per clock," said
Scott Wasson, who edits the hardware review site The Tech Report
( www.tech-report.com ).
Ulrike Diehlmann, director of the test center for PC World
magazine, notes that clock speed is now just one factor that
determines a processor's performance. Others include the amount
of built-in chip memory, known as cache, and the speed of the
connection between the CPU and other parts of the PChttp://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2004/12/23/business/ptspecs.html

'GRID' CONSORTIUM: A group of technology companies
including International Business Machines, Intel, Hewlett-Packard
and Sun Microsystems planned to announce the formation of a
consortium to accelerate the adoption of utility-like grid
computing in the corporate world.

The group, called the Globus Consortium, will develop software
for business uses of grid computing, and will educate companies
about the technology.

Globus's software pools computing resources from many
machines in the fashion of a virtual supercomputer to focus on
one task. The Globus project was started in 1996 by scientists at
research laboratories and universities. The U.S. government
provided most of the early financing to develop the software.
(NYT) ---International Herald Tribune Jan. 25, 2005

Green Neon Light Display :
"celestial advertising" and HAARPFirst
Artificial Neon Sky Show CreatedBy shooting intense radio beams into the night sky,
researchers created a modest neon light show visible from the
ground. The process is not well understood, but scientists
speculate it could one day be employed to light a city or
generate celestial advertisements.
Researchers with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research
Program (HAARP) project in Alaska tickled the upper atmosphere to
the extent that it glowed with green speckles.The HAARP experiment involves acres of antennas and a 1
megawatt generator. The scientists sent radio pulses skyward
every 7.5 seconds, explained team leader Todd Pederson of the Air
Force Research Laboratory.http://www.livescience.com/technology/050202_light_show.html